Photo Credit: Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:54:03 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/diGGettyImages-754597.jpgPresident Donald Trump has added a longtime Washington lawyer to his legal team who has publicly promoted a conspiracy theory that officials in the FBI and Justice Department are plotting to frame the president...

Photo Credit: Getty Images]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:10:17 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/trump-mueller-foto-doble-01234.jpgPresident Donald Trump made his most direct — and explicit — criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation in a tweet this weekend that contained at least five inaccuracies or distortions...]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:41:48 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/newman-lipinski-split.jpgLiberal Democrats have used language like "horrible," "shameful" and "one of the worst" to describe one of their own members of Congress, the moderate, anti-abortion Rep. Dan Lipinski, NBC News reported.The...

Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, File]]>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:38:45 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/trump-muller-tweets-th.jpgOver the weekend, President Donald Trump tweeted his displeasure with special counsel Robert Mueller and the Russia investigation.]]>Sun, 18 Mar 2018 08:26:40 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/trump-cabinet-mtg.jpgPresident Donald Trump had to cheer the firing of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe to sell the narrative that he is the victim of a bipartisan conspiracy, carried out over two administrations, to...

Photo Credit: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File]]>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:05:17 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/214*120/US-WH-Briefing-2-CR-152123000579100002.jpgSarah Huckabee Sanders told the press Friday that no more staff changes were coming, and that the Chief of Staff told staffers they "shouldn't be concerned."]]>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:39:55 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/NC_russianbots0316_1920x1080.jpgWhile organizing for local conventions, Glen Maxey, legislative affairs director for the Texas Democratic Party, found almost 50 email registrations that seemed odd. He thinks it was a foray into Texas politics...]]>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:12:50 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/louise+slaughter.jpgLongtime Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, who represented New York districts for more than three decades, died early Friday of injuries sustained in a fall last week at her Washington, D.C., home, her chief of...

Photo Credit: Todd Elliott Photography]]>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:12:00 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/DIT+NAT+TRUMP+DIVORCE+THUMB.jpgVanessa and Donald Trump Jr. filed for divorce Thursday ending their 12-year marriage. The couple released a joint statement that said their children remained their top priority.]]>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:28:01 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/specialcounselmullerprobe_1200x675.jpgSpecial counsel Robert Mueller has issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization for documents related to Russia and other areas, The New York Times reported Thursday.NBC News reported that the White House...

Photo Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images, File]]>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:41:07 -0400https://media.nbcnewyork.com/images/213*120/DIT_NAT_TRUMP_RUSSIA_UK_031518_1-152113241269800002.jpgPresident Donald Trump was asked his thoughts about the nerve agent poisoning in the U.K. that targeted a former Russian spy and his daughter.]]>